Sophie Gloss decided one day to test her dog’s memory. Bear, the smart Border Collie started to identify only 11 toys, and later on, identify 52 – and counting.
She first asked Bear: “Where’s your dinosaur?” The dog then sprawled on the floor, grabbed the dinosaur, and gave it to Sophie. She then asks Bear about the caterpillar. Bear answers her question with amazement.
As the memory test goes on, the dog is able to correctly name the names of the pigs camel, snakes lobster, crocodiles and dachshunds.
After that, Sophie posted on Instagram: ‘Bear can recognize up to 52 toys by name. It takes him five minutes to remember a new toy!’
Dogs can be very smart. Dr. Holly Root-Gutteridge, from the University of Sussex, said, ‘But these results show they have more advanced language skills than we give them credit for, and I actually know dogs that can respond to 75 different commands.’
‘Dogs probably gained the ability to distinguish between the barks of other dogs so they could work out their size, and then they started paying attention to our language after we domesticated them.’
Good boy! In this video, you can see the clever doggo bear.
Six-year-old Border Collie Bear can not only correctly identify up to 80 toys and get them on request, but if you’re parched – he can also fetch you a beer from the fridge! pic.twitter.com/G3qneF9jVb
— This Morning (@thismorning) June 8, 2021
